The Year in Hate & Extremism, 2010 - ALIPAC makes the list

The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) is out with their new Year in Hate and Extremism 2010 review and it’s an eyeopener for most although not so much for those of us that follow these nativist hate groups. It ought to make William Gheen, President of the nativist extremist group Americans for Legal Immigration (ALIPAC) proud that he made the top of the list for groups in North Carolina alongside his buddies from NC FIRE. And we’d put the question out to all of his donors, past, present and future, “Do you really want your names associated with a recognized hate group?” Something to think about as Mr. Gheen is frantically trying to reach his fundraising goal with the days MORE

 
US guns definitively tied to Mexican cartel violence

Nativist Mexican basher Tom Tancredo recently made this asinine comment in an article about the murder of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry, concerning weapons used by Mexican cartel members. The allegation that the Sinaloa drug cartel obtained those AK-47s from gun shops in the United States is nonsensical. That’s a fairy tale cooked up by the Obama administration and endorsed by the Mexican government because they do not want to admit that the cartels get most of their serious weaponry from the international black market and the Mexican military itself. And as we pointed out, Tancredo and his followers are imbeciles. The truth comes out in this article published at BORDERLAND BEAT. As Mexico Drug Violence Runs Rampant, U.S. Guns MORE

 
Border Patrol Agent killed in gunbattle in southern Arizona

A Border Patrol agent from the agency’s swat team was shot and killed Tuesday night in a gunbattle with suspected bandits south of Tucson. Agent Brian A. Terry, 40, was killed when he and fellow agents exchanged fire with a group of five people about 11 p.m. in a remote area west of Rio Rico, said FBI spokeswoman Brenda Nath. Four of the five suspected bandits were in custody Wednesday morning, including one man who was hospitalized with gunshot wounds, said agent Brandon Judd, president of the agents’ union in Arizona, Local 2544. The severity of his injuries is unknown.

 
Minutemen, Murderers and Deadbeat Border Vigilantes

Interesting happenings this week in the world of loony toons: MCCI & BPAUX facing eviction, investigation of weapons trafficking? First, from our friend at ITMA, one of her confidential sources identified only as “Minuteman X” has reported that Ken Dreger and his BPAUX MCCI Minutemen border vigilante organizaton are on the verge of being evicted from their Camp Vigilance in San Diego County and are attempting to move their whole money making scam operation to Arizona because they feel they can generate more donations there with current anti-immigrant sympathies running so strong.

 
Border Vigilante Chris Simcox, armed, on the run from the law

Chris Simcox, went from a loony toons nobody on the Arizona border to the leader of thousands of armed civilian vigilantes as part of the Minuteman movement, confidant of Minuteman child killer Shawna Forde, a U.S. senatorial candidate, and advisor to candidate J.D. Hayworth, all in five years. Now a fugitive from the law he once claimed to uphold, bounty hunters are looking for him in order to serve an order of protection for his estranged wife as part of a messy divorce case in which he is accused in court records of threatening to kill her, their three children and any police officers who try to protect them. Documents filed by Fugitive Recovery Services of Arizona, a state-licensed company MORE

 

SAN DIEGO — An international manhunt is under way after a U.S. Border Patrol agent was shot and killed near Campo on Thursday night while investigating a group of people presumed to have crossed into the country illegally. He has been identified as Robert Rosas, Homeland Security officials said. He was stationed in Campo. An agent saw the group sometime between 8:30 and 9 p.m. in the remote and rocky terrain south of state Route 94 off Shockey Truck Trail not far from the border, Border Patrol Agent Daryl Reed said. He called for other agents, who split up and began to trail the group, Reed said. About 9:15 p.m., agents, who had lost radio contact with their fellow agent, MORE